AMES Presents: Race Media Empire Speaker Series- Constructing the Inner Frontier: Redeemable Difference and the Art of Intimate Self-Management in the 1930s Okinawa

Wendy Matsumura is Associate Professor of History at UC San Diego. Following the publication of her first book, The Limits of Okinawa in 2015, she has been working on a project that examines the relationship between oikonomics, imperialism, and anti-capitalist struggle in the Japanese empire through a Marxist feminist perspective. Her more recent work has been published in Viewpoint magazine, The Funambulist magazine, and other more public-facing outlets. Contact: thomas.lamarre@duke.edu